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An Unusual Victorian Walking Stick Stand made from the Fossilised Bone of a Mammoth
( England
1800 to 1900
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Medium
Fossilised Bone of a Mammoth and wood
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Dimensions
33.00cm wide
58.50cm high
(12.99 inches wide 23.03 inches high)
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Literature:
The extinct Woolly Mammoth ( Elephas Primigenius ) of the northern zones of the world was the size of an Indian elephant , had long woolly red fur and large inward curving tusks . Various species of mammoth were abundant in both the old and new worlds in pleistocene times .
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Description / Expertise
An Unusual Victorian Walking Stick Stand made from the Fossilised Bone of a Mammoth , on a turned wood stand . A plaque to the base inscribed : ‘Mounted by the Army and Navy CSL Naturalist dept. London SW’
Circa 1870 – 1880
Size : 58.5 cm high , 33 cm dia. – 23 ins high , 13 ins dia.
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